Consecutive-numbering head



(No Model.)

T. F. GEARY.

CONSEGUTIVE NUMBERING HEAD.

No. 461,408. Patented oct. 13,1891'.

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lUNiTED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

THOMAS F. GEARY, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH VETTER, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

CONSECUTIVE-N UMBERING HEADl SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 461,408, dated October 18, 1891D Application filed May 18, 1891. Serial No. 393,062. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.- from the type, this rod or other projection be- Be it known that I, THOMAS F. GEARY, of ing pivoted to the trame. Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is of New York, have invented certain new and a vertical section in line .00 a: of Fig. 2, illus- 55 5 useful Improvements in Consecutive-Numtrating one end of the swinging pawl-frame bei-ing Heads; and I do hereby declare that in a numbering-head with my invention apthe following is a full and exact descripplied thereto. Fig. 2 is a similar section in tion thereof, reference being had to the acline y y of Fig. l, affording' a front View of companying drawings, and to the letters of the swinging frame and numbering-wheels. 6o xo reference marked thereon, making a part of A represents the outer case of the numberthis specification. ing-head, in which the numbering-wheels B My invention relates to that class of num- B, the ratchet-wheels O O, and the swinging boring-heads in which the numbering-wheels frame D, carrying the pawls which actuate are actuated by meansof a swinging frame the ratchets, are mounted. to operate in' the 65 carrying pawls, which in the oscillation of the customary manner. In said numbering-head frame engage and move ratchet-wheels iiXed no provision is made for an independent to the numbering-Wheels, and of which an plunger and levers to actuate the swinging example is found in the numberinglead for pawi-frame. Hence the ends of the pawlwhich Letters Patent of the United States frame, which are pivoted to swing as usual 7o zo were granted to Reinhardt and Ellis May 26, upon the shaft E, on which the numbering- 1SS5, No. 318,803. Heretofore in this class wheels revolve, are brought closely against of machines the oscillation oi` the head has the ends of the case. been produced by means of an independent One or more springs F are iitted in the spring-seated vertical'plunger either at one lower part of the case to bear against the 75 end or in front of the wheels, or by means pawl-frame in position to force it automatiof an equivalent spring-seated vertical frame cally upward when left free, this upward inclosing the wheels, the vertical plunger or movement of the frame being made in the frame being connected with the swinging customarymanner to cause an engagementof frame by a combination of intermediate lethe pawls carried thereby with the appropri- 8o 3o vers adapted to convert the vertical moveate ratchets to move the numbering-wheels,

ment of the one into the swinging movement or spiral springs F F may b e fitted to enof the other. These devices, although very circle the axial shaft E in a recess inthe ends generally used, have been found objectionof the pawl-frame for the same purpose. able because of the amount of space taken At the outerfree edge of the swingingpawl- 3 5 up by the actuating plunger or frame and the frame a rod G is pivoted to project upward consequent length or width required in the from the frame beyond the casing of the head numbering-head outside of the numberingin position to be engaged at its outer end by wheels, the platen of the press in which the number- The object of my invention is to simplify ing-head may be placed, and it is automati- 9o 4o the construction of the numbering-head and cally upheldin said upright position bymeans render it more compact, and this I accomof a spring II, engaging a toe J, projecting plish by combining a spring with the swingfrom the lower pivotal end of the rod. ing pawl-frame to carry it automatically to rlhe spring Il allows the rod to oscillate and its normal elevated position, and also aftixing yield upon its pivot as the pawl-frame swings 45 to its outer end at any convenient point downward under the pressure oi the platen, thereon an upwardly-projecting rod or other so that the movement of lthe end of the rod suitable projecting piece extending high in engagement with the platen shall be as enough to be struck and depressed by the small as possible and the rod will maintain platen of the printing-press in which the substantially its vertical position. (See dotroo 5o numbering-head may be placed whenever the ted lines, Fig. l.)

I claim as my inventionplaten is dropped to produce an impression The combination, with the swinging pmvl- In testimony whereof I have signed my frame in a numbering-head, of u rod pivoted name to this specification in the presence oi Io to its outer free edge to project above the top two subscribing,` witnesses. of the casing, a spring supporting the rod in its elevated position7 and u spring actuating THOMAS F. GEARY. the frame to move it outwardly, substantially Witnesses:

in the manner and foiY the purpose herein set A. N. JESBERA,

forth. A. WID'DER. 

